James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
James M. Barrie quotes about
long forever peter
Forever is a very long time Peter
dream mother lasts
When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.
love beautiful wall
You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
smoking age might
The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era..
love eye privilege
Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
birthday baby laughing
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
prayer tonight language
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
facts relief reluctance
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
running dry down-and
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
responsible said darling
No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.
growing-up pimples grew-up
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.
waiting
Just always be waiting for me.
awake not-sure knows
He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
neverland crocodiles chasing
I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.